100 Ways I can Love Myself
(I so adore and respect this younger version of myself! What all she/me/we/I have survived and the ways we’ve grown are incredible.)
Some days are totally Groovy on their own – and some days I need a list to remind myself of ways to Love Myself Groovy. Whatever it takes – Right?
What’s on your Groovy Love List?
100+ Groovy ways I can love myself starting now!
- Get to bed early enough to get plenty of sleep
- Make the bed and put on the pretty pillows
- Stretch
- Journal
- Do a shower meditation to bring in the groovy energies and wash away anything that needs to go away
- Create and maintain healthy habits
- Check out my garden and celebrate the beauty
- Healthy breakfast
- Added nutrients
- Walk in nature
- Read a book
- Eliminate energy draining people in my life (or restrict as much as possible)
- Do activities that light me up
- Outsource activities that don’t light me up as I can (ex hire a housekeeper and bookkeeper)
- Find ways to make those activities I don’t enjoy be less sucky until I can outsource them
- Garden
- Make friends in f2f life
- Get involved in groups that bring me joy in person and online
- Cuddle with the kitties (lol – they will always be kitties no matter how old they get!)
- Pet the dog more
- Take a day hike in the woods
- Walk barefoot on the beach
- Bubble bath
- Bath with Epson salt
- Taping
- Chiropractor
- Take selfies and look for what I love about my body instead of what I hate
- Honor my time as valuable and mine!
- Receive complements with grace and as a blessing
- Buy some new shoes – I do need some!
- Declutter my home
- Get rid of anything that doesn’t light me up or isn’t useful in my life
- Put money aside for later
- Wear lipstick and mascara when I want
- Take a trip
- Sign up for those classes I want to take
- Sit and watch the humming birds
- Nap!
- Paint my toenails
- Get a pedicure
- Get a full body massage
- Write loving messages in the steam on the shower walls and door
- Write myself love letters
- Draw pictures
- Olay with paints
- Take more pictures that light me up
- Dress up groovy
- Dress comfortable and groovy
- Hug people more
- Buy myself some tasty coffee
- Plant more flowers
- Buy myself flowers
- Buy some house plants
- Drink plenty of fluids
- Go to the gym
- Dance at gym
- Go Dancing just for fun
- Get a groovy easy haircut
- Add Groovy fun colors to my hair
- Quit my 24/7 energy draining gig
- Create habits for growing my business to supporting myself in abundance
- Share a cup of coffee with a friend
- Go to the dentist and get teeth cleaned and checked
- Floss
- Oil pulling
- Go on drives
- Call friends more frequently
- Take a painting class
- Go on a cruise
- Listen to music
- Create a GHY music list
- Get my palm read
- Have a tarot spread read for me
- Write my own guided meditation
- Write my own tapping scripts
- Rewrite Falling From the Apple Tree and submit for publication
- Write Mick’s book,
- Write the dog book
- Write my autism story
- Write my wheel-of-life playbook
- Write, A Groovy Grimouir
- Collect shells on the beach (actually anything on the beach – sit, read, smell the air, listen to the waves…)
- Hug myself and affirm why I love myself
- Lay in the sauna with my feet up on the wall
- Sit in the hot tub
- Try out new health friendly recipes
- Play in the mud
- Peruse Pinterest to get gardening, dress up, homesteading or art ideas
- Go to a plant nursery to be around plants
- Sit in a rocking chair and rock
- Lay out on a big flat rock and follow the clouds
- Celebrate the success of others
- Hold babies PRN
- Go to the bookstore to wander and people watch
- Create an alter
- Go on an art date to art studios
- Swing on a swing
- Go for a swim
- Do some craft or art with kids (or kids at heart)
- Keep exploring what makes me feel Groovy!
There are thousands more ways I could come up with – What about you? Do you have a Love List?
Thank you for reading this older post – I hesitated including these and I flipped and flopped and overthought and then decided it would be worth including these as they may be useful to someone else on their own journey.
They not so elegantly document the messiness – and therein lies the beauty and purpose.
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